Libyan parliament sacks PM after tanker escapes rebel-held port
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Libya’s parliament voted Prime Minister Ali Zeidan out of office on Tuesday after rebels humiliated the government by loading crude on a tanker that fled from naval forces, officials said, in a sign of the worsening chaos in the OPE…
Front companies, embassies mask North Korean weapons trade: U.N.
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea has developed sophisticated ways to circumvent United Nations sanctions, including the suspected use of its embassies to facilitate an illegal trade in weapons, a United Nations report issued on Tuesday said.
Italian parliament inches towards approving electoral reform
ROME (Reuters) – Italian lawmakers edged closer on Tuesday to approving a new electoral law seen as a test of new Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s ability to enact broad structural reforms needed to end government instability in Italy.
Malaysia military source says missing jet veered to west
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia’s military believes a jetliner missing for almost four days turned and flew hundreds of kilometers to the west after it last made contact with civilian air traffic control off the country’s east coast, a senior officer…
U.S. condemns ‘heavy-handed tactics’ by Burundi police in clashes
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States on Tuesday condemned what it called the use of heavy-handed tactics by Burundi’s police to break up opposition party meetings at the weekend in which more than a dozen people were injured and several were arrest…
Swiss to ask European court to review genocide denial case
ZURICH (Reuters) – Switzerland will ask the European Court of Human Rights to review a case involving a Turkish politician who denied that mass killings of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey in 1915 amounted to genocide, the Justice Ministry said on Tuesday.
Rouhani has not increased freedoms in Iran, U.N. chief says
GENEVA (Reuters) – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has failed to fulfil campaign promises to allow greater freedom of expression and there has been a sharp rise in executions since his election, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday.
Sudan student dies after police fire tear gas on protest
KHARTOUM (Reuters) – A Sudanese student died on Tuesday after police fired tear gas at Khartoum University protesters who have links to the Darfur region, police said in an emailed statement.
Shoulder-launched anti-aircraft missiles flow abroad from Libya: U.N.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Shoulder-launched anti-aircraft missiles have been trafficked out of Libya to Chad, Mali, Tunisia, Lebanon and likely Central African Republic, with attempts made to send them to Syrian opposition groups, according to a U.N. …
Bomb wounds two policemen in Bahraini Shi’ite village
DUBAI (Reuters) – A homemade bomb exploded in a Shi’ite Muslim village in Bahrain on Tuesday, wounding two policemen, the interior ministry said, nine days after another blast in the Gulf Arab kingdom killed three police officers.
